Category: Food

Street Food III – Along Horta e Costa

Avenida de Horta e Costa is one of the busiest roads in Macau. Direct from South to northern side tip to toe – it connects through the small tunnel Monte de Guia, all the way down to the heart of Local Residential sites. It always devote as is one of the busiest roads in Macau. Pronounced as Kou-Si-Tak in chinese...

Street Food II – Fai Chi Kei

Fai Chi Kei is one of the seven parishes of Macau, one of the biggest administrative subdivisions (of the municipalities). It’s quite intensely populated – almost one third of Macau’s population allocated there. It stretches from the west of the peninsula across to the east. We never blame anyone here missing Fai Chi Kei, a place with few or actually...

Street Food I – Barbosa Market

Barbosa market, translated Portuguese namely “Complexo Municipal do Mercado de Tamagini Barbosa (台山街市市政綜合大樓). This is one of the most historical landmark located in Northern part of Macau. The open marketplace have served temporary migrants and residents back in the 70s. In 2005, the Macau Government have announced new construction development moving all market stalls in one centralized block. The Marketplace...

Da Luz Family Oral Recipes

A birthday to remember. My lovely grandpa, Tito Herculano da Luz, a father of eight kids, devoted his major lifetime cooking at home. His unique cooking technique and aroma flavours aroused my interest for years searching for his “Cookbook”. It was not easy at all. Our family recipes have been almost closed guarded and kept locked in memorable casual talks....

Horta da Mitra – The Bird’s Paradise – Food & culture

Situated at the central part of Macau, close to Rua da Campo and Rua da Guia, was once a popular gathering and hunting place for Portuguese communities back centuries, now naming the district “The Bird’s Paradise”. Raised up during my childhood at Rua de Tomas da Rosa, along the historical, iconic long-stone staircase built centuries ago – other buildings, temples...

Valentine’s Take Away 2020 Trend

As at today, Macau has been reported no new corona virus cases found for ten days straight, if you are listening to government’s warning “manage your legs staying at home”, you probably have spent most of your time cooking at home all day. Yet, still remain unknown when our daily lifestyles will be back to “normal state”, everyone till now,...

Stuffy morning with comfy rice flour roll

My father told me that my Grandfather use to sell rice flour roll before I was born; the best way to enjoy the juice roll is to in-roll the rice flour roll, let the thin layer to absorb as mush as the sauce. Most of the people will have a perception that more sweet sauce more tasty; in fact, you...